The American Academy in Berlin was established in 1994. Its primary goal is to foster greater understanding and dialogue between the people of the United States and the people of Germany through its presence in Berlin, a city with which the United States should maintain its unique cultural, social, political, and historical links.

The Academy offers residential fellowships at its Hans Arnhold Center to American scholars, writers, policymakers, and artists, permitting them to pursue their work in a manner that encourages participation in the vibrant life of Berlin and Germany. The Academy also brings leading Americans to Berlin for briefer visits to facilitate a robust exchange of views between the people of Germany and the United States.

Funding for the American Academy in Berlin is provided almost entirely by private donations from individuals, foundations, and corporations. It is private generosity that has enabled the creation and success of this institution over the past dozen years and what will enable us to sustain the level and excellence of our activities throughout the difficult economic times ahead.

You may make tax-deductible donations to the American Academy from the US or from Germany. Please download the donation form here to make your pledge and to acquire the Academy’s account information.

For further information or to speak with someone regarding support opportunities, please contact Coralie Wörner at +49 030 804 830 x109 or co(at)americanacademy.de.

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This winter offers a new batch of intriguing lectures and talks at the Hans Arnhold Center: Obama and international law; the many arts of translation; Jeremy Rifkin on the empathic civilization; Albrecht Dürer as collector; India's role in the New World Order; Bonhoeffer in America; and fiction by Amy Waldman and Francisco Goldman. To read about these lectures and more, please download the Winter 2010 Program. We look forward to welcoming you, so please remember to register well in advance of all lectures at program(at)americanacademy.de

All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

Hans Arnhold (1888-1966) was an important banker in Weimar Germany whose family villa  on the Wannsee welcomed many of the period's cultural leading lights. That same villa, now called The Hans Arnhold Center, is the home of the American Academy in Berlin.

Forced to emigrate from Nazi Germany, Arnhold re-established his financial business in New York City as Arnhold & Bleichroeder. The descendents of Hans and Ludmilla Arnhold provided the Academy with its founding gift, with the goal of fostering friendship and cultural exchange between Germany and the United States.

The fall 2009 issue of The Berlin Journal features articles by Fellows Mary Sarotte on the tense evening hours of November 9, 1989 in East Berlin; Leonard Barkan on the mind of Michelangelo; Joel Harrington on God's sixteenth-century Nuremberg executioner; poet Susan Howe on the Midwest's lost objects; and Justice Stephen Breyer on the 1857 Dred Scott decision. These topics and more, accompanied by compelling images by Mitch Epstein, Walton Ford, Matthias Hoch, Haleh Anvari, and Fellow Michael Queenland.

You may pick up a copy of The Berlin Journal free of charge at the American Academy in Berlin.

Click here to navigate to The Berlin Journal page and to download past issues, and here to download issue 18.

The Hans Arnhold Center, a historic villa on the shores of the Wannsee and the home of the American Academy, serves as both quiet retreat and hub of intellectual life.

The American Academy in Berlin is located in Wannsee. S-bahns and regional rail trains run regularly throughout the day. For a map of the area and directions to the American Academy, located on Am Sandwerder 17-19, please click here.

A variety of media cover evening lectures at the Hans Arnhold Center -- The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The International Herald Tribune, Tagesspiegel, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Spiegel Online, The Washington Post, Die Zeit, and National Public Radio, among others. If you or your media organization would like to attend a lecture or request interviews with Fellows or Distinguished Visitors, please contact Program Assitant Nicole Busse to register, at nb(at)americanacademy.de.